More flood disasters
Typhoon causes widespread destruction in the Philippines
By John Roberts, September 30, 2009
A major storm struck the Philippines last Saturday killing at least 250 people and causing over 435,000 to flee their flooded homes.
UN reports 1 billion of the world’s people going hungry
By Jerry White, September 18, 2009
For the first time in history, more than one billion people, or nearly one in every 6 inhabitants of the planet, are going hungry this year.
Sri Lanka: Detention of Tamil civilians to continue indefinitely
By Sampath Perera, August 22, 2009
Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse reiterated on Monday that up to 300,000 Tamil civilians who fled the fighting in the final days of the country’s protracted civil war will remain inc...
Typhoon Morakot devastates Taiwan
By John Chan, August 17, 2009
Anger is mounting in Taiwan over the Kuomintang government’s inadequate emergency response and its failure to quickly rescue victims of Typhoon Morakot.
The reality of life in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum
By Harvey Thompson, June 13, 2009
The popularity of Danny Boyle’s recent film, Slumdog Millionaire has led to a surge of media interest in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi which is partially depicted in the film.
Sin Nombre: The fate of Central American youth on their way to the US
By Luis Arce, April 24, 2009
Following the lives of two teenagers, Sin Nombre tells the story of thousands of poor youth in Central America trying to cope with a society that has nothing for them.
Lions roaring in a well
Vince Melocchi’s Lions at the Pacific Resident Theatre
By Richard Adams, April 1, 2009
Lions is set in a neighborhood tavern in Detroit. The play treats the lives of a group of working class football fans, as their team disappoints them once again, and their economic and personal prospe...
Australian bushfire victims and volunteers criticise government inaction
By our correspondents, February 26, 2009
Five large bushfires are still burning out of control across the state of Victoria more than two weeks after the February 7 “Black Saturday” fires. Last weekend WSWS reporters spoke with bushfire ...
Solomon Islands unprepared for flood disaster
By Dragan Stankovic, February 16, 2009
A state of disaster was declared in early February in the 12 worst flood-affected wards of the Solomon Islands after at least 10 people died and 10 were missing, feared dead. The inadequate response o...
US: Power outages persist throughout Kentucky
By Naomi Spencer, February 5, 2009
A week after being hit by an ice storm and bitterly cold weather, hundreds of thousands of households in the south central US remain without power and heat. Damage is most widespread in Kentucky, whic...
Thousands displaced in Fiji by severe flooding
By Margaret Rees, January 15, 2009
Tropical storms triggered severe flooding in Fiji last weekend, killing at least 11 people. More than 9,000 people have abandoned their homes and fled to evacuation centres.
Sculptor Louise Bourgeois: A year of events celebrating her life and work
By Paul Stuart, January 14, 2009
On 25 December the artist Louise Bourgeois celebrated her 97th birthday. Bourgeois has produced a significant body of work in a personal visual language, which, nonetheless, has been shaped by the tum...
